dancing

Tonight after my last post we started playing music and even dad danced in the empty dinning room:) It was great.

Tim

moving

Moving normally says your leaving something and moving to something else. While yes physcially I am doing this. I do not feel this way. I would say so because I have been away from home so long at college. My home now feels like Cedarville. I do not feel at home while I am at my house. Even before It became a house full of boxes. So why is this? Well if I could answer that then I would not be writting now would I? I write a lot sometimes to try and figure out things but I think that is perhaps a wrong method. Some times I think my proper response should be to accept. Accept that the Lord is moving my family and me in my life.

My life is in a weird state. Like my world lately has been picked up and turned around. I was walking in a dirrection of self destruction and now the Lord is teaching me that the way I was going was wrong. I need to make Christ truely the center of my life. To be honest that is incredibly hard. I still have things that fight for my attention and things that want me to serve them rather than the Lord. Another thing is relationships. They are rocky in my life. In that department I know what I would like to happen but not sure that is what the Lord will provide in my life.

I have been trying to listen to people more. That is something I think I have a great problem with because of my pride. Pride in my life was and might still be a storm that loomed over me. I constantly was looking down at people. I was thinking of how I measured up mainly how I measure better to them. This is sin and worked its way out in my never listening to a thing that people said. If I do not think the person is truely equal to me in my mind than I will not truely listen to them. Proverbs talks about this. James says that one should be quick to listen and slow to speak. These are so hard when one is prideful. For when one is prideful I thought that I knew everything and that listening to a person was merely humoring them till it was my turn to speak.

That sure took a weird turn. Well feel free to post comments.

Tim

the truck is full

Last night at 6pm the filling of the truck began. This truck is packed so tight that if there was a mouse on one side and he needed to get to the other side to survive he would not make it. We have had lots of help but I am still extreemly tiered. Thanks everyone that came out carried boxes and cleaned or did anything.

To unwind we just spent two hours at starbucks and I had a venti mocah frappichine and it was good and there was much rejoicing within my mouth:) Just want to thank the Lord for allowing us to get everything in the truck. It is great that we do not have to drive the truck. I am sure it will be fun un loading it but you can not think too much about your fun before it happens;)

Anyways I think I will put mhhy quote up later.

Tim

waiting for the box on wheels

So today we are not getting the truck till around 4 or 5 tonight. So for now we are chillen out and waiting. I am watching history things on my lap top about wars Brittian fought in past history. They are kinda neat. England losses most of them:) So yea thats about it.

The last day???????

So tomorrow might be the last day of packing. I say that because we will be able to load the truck with some things and be able to get enough stuff out of the way to really finish the job of packing. Today was somewhat anoying for me because it was another day that promised to be somewhat counter productive. The thing we needed today was the truck. We have enough stuff to fill an entire truck with and we just need to start putting it in so we can finish packing the rest. O well.

So I did not get to read much and that is bad. But last night I got to read more of the War of the Jews. It is written by Josephus and is a first century account of when Herod came to power and eventually it will show the destruction of 70 a.d. Very interesting to read since most people talk about how people in the ancient times glossed everything over. Josephus shows a pretty detailed analysis of the way things happened. Anyways here is my quote for the day.

"To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of launguage the sudden flash of poetry" Gasten Backland

another day of packing

So yea life has been really exciting:) See I get to put things in boxes and then I tape them up and write on them. After that I take them and stack them in the garage next to a huge pile of boxers:) Yes, so its not really that great but o well its life at the moment. O and if anyone wants to come over and help me feel free to call me and come over and hang out and pack. We do not start loading till friday night but really Saturday. So all you buff people that live in Texas should come over on Saturday or sooner. And even if your not buff you should still come over. Moving can make a guy go crazy. Right about now we have most things ready and if we could just get rid of some of it and put it in the truck it would do a lot of good.

So I am previewing the New Jars of Clay cd "Redemptions Song". It sounds like they took a lot of old hymns and re did them. So basically it sounds awsome. Jars of Clay is of course my favorite group I have now all but two of their albums. Okay the more I preview it the more I am ready to download the whole album right now. Okay so I dowloaded it:)

So incase anyone is wondering I got a new laptop. I got it for graduation. I got it a year early since david needs a computer for school and has taken my old one. So it is a powerbook G4 15in with some wicked upgrades. If your a geek and are wondering it is the best you can make the 15 inch powerbook model. To say the lease I am very happy and thankful for this. I will love being able to write papers with ease all around campus and already enjoy the mobility at home.

The quote of the day comes from a book I read this last semster called, "The Orthodox Way". If you are interested in learning about Eastern Orthodoxy it is a good book to read that will give you a nice feel for the way they think and believe. Also there is a lot of good pratical teaching that all Christians can gain from the book. There are some things in the book I would not consider to be in conformity with my own beliefs but that is understood.

"Metanoia (greek aliterated to english) as we have noted signifies primarily a change of mind! Correctly understood, repentance is not negative but positive. It means, not self pity or remorse, but conversion, the recentering of our whole life upon the Trinity. It is to look, not backwards at our own short comings, but upwards at God's love. It is to see not what we have failed to be but what by divine grace we can now become and it is to act upon what we see."

I thought that this quote shows a positive side to repentance.

Tim

another day

So today I did some more packing :)

I was in a good mood most of the day and that was good. My little brother and I went on a run today in glorious 90 degree weather of Texas. After that David and I went to a Texas rangers game. It was good they won 5-4 over the Royals. I then came home and enjoyed some yummy enchiladas Tim style. These are made with corn tortias and chillie and cheese with hot sauce poured over and I stack them like pancakes. Very tastety. Last night I went to a Bible study. Way to go Briana it was very good. Below is a song i really liked and that really encouraged me. Then we went bowling and had a good time. I had a head ache the whole night but still it was great to see Karly and Briana and other friends. They are all very nice to be around and really just nice to be with. O and Warren should not dance but thats a nother issue. Well here is the song I liked.

Before I write this a random comment is that I am drinking milk out of a wine class I got from Senior prom :)

Thy Mercy My God is the theme of my song
The Joy of my heart and the boast of my tongue
Thy free grace alone from the first to the last
Has won my affection and bound my soul fast!

Without thy sweet mercy I could not live here
Sin would reduce me to utter despair
But through they free goodness my spirit revive
And he that firstmade me still keeps me alive!

They mercy is more than a match for my heart
Which wonders to feel its own hardness depart
dissolved by they goodness, I fall to the ground
And weep to the praise of they mercy I've found!

Great Father of mercies! Thy goodness I own
And the covenant love of Thy cruicified son
All praise to the spirit whose whisper divine
Seals mercy and pardon and righteousness mine!


This song is called "Thy Mercy my God". As you can see a very good song.

Tim

today

So today I got up and ran. THat was a good start. On my jog this lady was out for a walk and said now aren't you the ambisious one. So that was intersting. Random comment I thought I would through in for free. Today was a packing day that consisted of several trips for me. I ran around town and got things and took things places. We are done with the packing of dads books and now I am not quite sure what I will do with my self. I have been reading some of Josephus writtings concerning the war of the Jews but some of me is stil just waiting till friday when I get to start loading or Saturday I suppose.

At this moment I have no real deep thoughts. I just am going to hang out with my friends tonight. I am looking forward to the move so that I can hopefully get some structure into my day. I want to get a job durring the time that we are out of a house in la la land virginia and then by about the 8th be working and then the 13th I start my summer class.

I want to go to the beach this summer. Hopefully the Ferrans and Lydia and some other Virginai people can come and have a good time with me at the beach. So basically my goals and desires once I get to Virginia are work read and do this class. O and have a fun time and meet new friends. I also want to go to lots of coffee shops.

Tim Ice

Thoughts

So I was thinking today. Something that I try to do :) My thoughts were motivated by the comments the pastor said in his sermon. It is something that I have been dealing with a lot. It is how we seem to only grow strong in our faith durring periods of suffering. I do not wish to really teach any about this because there is so much said about it already. All I wish to say is thanks for the Crazy times as Jars of Clay would say. They teach us so much and hopefully in the peaceful times we will learn how to live with the faith we exhibit in the crazy times.

Hello

Hello, My name I Tim Ice. I was sitting around yesterdayd and thought that it would be a good idea to start keeping a journal. Then since I have a new laptop it occured to me that perhaps a blog would be neat. I have never done one of these and I am not sure how entertaining I will be but thats alright I suppose. If you do not know me I am 21 and I live in Texas for about one more week till my family and I will be moving to Virginia. I go to Cedarville University where I am majoring in Bible. I am the middle of three boys. That means that I am the best being the middle :) At leasein my little mind o well.

So this is also kinda a test post so thats why its so short.

Tim